Alcatel-Lucent Motive Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Austin, TXPosted Aug 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got started with a phone screen with the hiring manager, and the questions came fast and stayed theoretical.

They grilled me on Java technologies—threading, data structures, object-oriented programming, and more. Then I had a second phone screen with a developer, and it went even deeper into design patterns, Java threads, and messaging/queue concepts, plus cloud integration topics.

The way the questions were asked felt more like someone reading off knowledge than engaging around practical coding experience, and it left me with the impression that the interviewers were relying heavily on textbook-style questioning. Honestly, it felt very demanding and a little unnatural in terms of how “real”

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